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, and executive producer jeff pinkner wrote the episode. paul a. edwards served as the director, his first such credit for the series. in developing fringe, the co @ - @ creators did not want to make the series too serialized, as this was a complaint often directed at abrams'television series alias. they wanted to find a balance between standalone stories and serialized content, and studied procedural dramas such as law and order and csi : crime scene investigation for inspiration. kurztman explained, " while we make sure that our episodes are self @ - @ contained – have a beginning, a middle, and an end – the character stories can